Xcel has a coal plant in Colorado ready to open in 2010, but the rats are now launching an attack against it. They are now claiming that dangers of mercury emissions were not known at the time the permit was granted. Since the rats control state government, the future of this plant looks dim.
The masochistic left does not want the civilization in which they live to prosper. There can be few other explanations.
The only other explanation could be that they think that they, with their pull or accumulated wealth, will be able to avoid the hardships they are imposing on others and be able to gloat their superiority over everyone else.